Tech for Good Live

It’s our first episode of the year, and we’ve got a great show lined up for you. We talk about the North / South divide in the charity sector. Oxfam gets some stick because of an expensive jacket, and facial recognition is still the absolute worst. Host Rebecca Rae-Evans is joined by TFGL team members Greg Ashton , Sacha Wynne and producer Paul Jakubowski. Our special guest this week is Sarah Migu...

Christmas is a time for friendship, joy, fun, election rage and disappointment, and most importantly - a time for podcasts. Pretty sure there is a christmas song that will back that up. Thanks for joining us for this special episode of the Tech for Good Live podcast. It’s a podcast about technology being used for social good. We’ll be talking about our favourite news from the year.  And this episo...

TFGL and the Circular Economy is back, in collaboration with our friends at Dsposal . . Can the Circular Economy ever create a world of positive social change? In the third and final episode of Series Two we discuss the powerful, political world of economics and then look to the future, with the help of bananas. ----- Huge thanks to all this season's contributors: Gaëlle Guillaume Iain Gulland Ken...

TFGL and the Circular Economy is back, in collaboration with our friends at Dsposal . . In this second episode of Series Two, we talk to people who make beautiful cars and the people who recycle the metal in the cars. And Tom's mind is blown, multiple times! ----- Huge thanks to all this season's contributors: Gaëlle Guillaume Iain Gulland Ken Webster Marc Zornes James Close Andy Doran ----- This...

TFGL and the Circular Economy is back, in collaboration with our friends at Dsposal . . In this first episode in Season Two, we have a look at the wing of the Circular Economy we missed in Season One, the bio-cycle, and we start digging into economics – both circular and linear - and ask questions like... “Who is the Circular Economy for?” “Will it stop the climate emergency?” “Will it make the ri...

Recorded live at Unheard Voices, hosted in YES, Manchester. Unheard Voices is an inspiring and informative one-day music education conference that asks ‘whose voices aren’t being heard?’ and is presented by Brighter Sound and More Music Generation Phone – The Problem’s Not Them. It’s Us. The effects of technology on young people are constantly portrayed as negative. But have we got this wrong? Hav...

Welcome to our special bonfire night edition. As we’re all no doubt aware Bonfire night celebrates the triumph of brutal, state sponsored persecution in the face of a bloody failure of violent rebellion. With sparklers. What more appropriate night could there be for an episode of the Tech for God live podcast. We have a guest with us! Lauren Hogan, Volunteering Projects Officer with Turn2us, a nat...

The team break free from our Manchester studio and head down south to the glorious Bath Digital Festival to record two special live episodes. In this second episode, we’re taking questions on Social Media and Democracy, in a live recording of BDF Question Time 2019, a public debate about the ethics of social media and the role they play in the rise and fall of our democratic process. Our host is J...

The team break free from our Manchester studio and head down south to the glorious Bath Digital Festival to record two special live episodes. First up, we’re talking Digital Healthcare. Digital and technology provides so many opportunities to improve systems, process and experiences for good. Is this really the case for the health sector? What are the opportunities for the health sector? Can curre...

This is a special episode because we’ll be talking about green tech. That’s right. The environment and stuff. And technology. Fun. We’re mostly going to be talking about death and stuff. We're joined by friends of the pod, Tom Passmore and Sophie Walker from clean-tech start-up Dsposal On the pod we talk about our carbon footprint, you can find yours by taking this short quiz here: footprint.wwf.o...

We’re talking about International Day of the Girl - and there’s some unpleasant stats we’ll be dealing with. DSC gave the Charity Commission a proper hammering in the press. It’s just like those design twitter fights, but everyone is more polite, and we’re looking into a new DfE report on the effect social media has on mental health. And we have a guest with us today! Dinah Turner - Director of St...

Nesta have announced the finalists for the “Tech to Connect” competition. Fake accounts are lobbying the US government to destroy the internet. Facebook have done something again. It's probably awful? That’s normally how it goes, we can’t keep track anymore! We’ll also be talking about My Little Ponies. FINALLY. This is why Bex got into podcasting. And we have the return of a guest, Phil Lennon! P...

t’s October! Which means it is officially autumn. October, as you all know, is officially the greatest month of the year. A season of mist and mellow fruitfulness.   As the golden leaves slowly tumble from their branches, we’ll be covering a range of fascinating stories. The ongoing NHS privatisation is on our agenda. The CharityComms survey results are out, and as you’d imagine, everything is not...

Welcome back to a brand new season of the Tech for Good Live podcast. That’s right - we got renewed for another season. That’s how popular we are! Either that, or we all just made a collective decision to stay onboard this sinking ship. We’ll see it out to the bitter, bloody end. We have lots to talk about this week, including a report that Facebook seem to be doing something about privacy concern...

It’s the season finale, so that means it’s time for something a little bit special. For this episode Bex travelled to London and sat down with the exceptional Ellie Hale, Dama Sathianathan, Nissa Ramsey and Sarah Drummond.  It’s not often you get such a formidable group of experts around the same table, so we dive straight in and debate the very state of tech for good in the UK and beyond. Sit bac...

Welcome to another episode of “Making Friends With…” - a special series where the Tech for Good Live team sit down for an in-depth interview with someone who is doing exceptional work in the tech industry. In this episode, Jonny and Fay chat with Laura Klein, Principal at Users Know & Author of UX for Lean Startups and Build Better Products. Laura also hosts the What is Wrong with UX podcast....

This week we are talking about Ecosia and the Amazon being on fire. The hashtag #CharitySoWhite was trending on Twitter - we talk about that. And there’s a new food-sharing platform that we should probably tuck into. Pun 100% intended.  And we have a great guest with us today! Michal Wisniewski from Flock, a #HR #tech #startup that recently completed the #LisbonChallengeAccelerator. Flock’s missio...

On this week’s show we talk about digital maturity in the charity sector. We’ll also find out more about some awesome new Girl Scout badges, such as coding for good and Tom is going to rant about recycling.  Our guest this week is Nissa Ramsay. Nissa is a freelance research consultant working in the tech for good space. You can find her on Twitter @NissaRamsay In her own words, it’s pretty niche,...

In this weeks episode, Producer Paul chats to Dsposal's Sophie Walker and Tom Passmore about what they got up to at last months Bluedot festival, a music, science and culture event held at Jodrell Bank Observatory, combining music, live science experiments, expert talks and immersive artworks. They discuss their attempts to demystify data in a fun and informative way with Open Data Manchester and...

There’s lots to talk about this week, including a new charity social network that aims to connect charities with volunteers and the fact Carole Cadwalladr has launched a crowd funder to fight back against the enemy of everything and everyone that is decent...Arron Banks. We have a wonderful guest to mull all this over with, Gemma McCall, Co-Founder of Culture Shift. ( https://culture-shift.co.uk/...

We're back in the studio this week and Sophie Walker from Dsposal is in the hosting hotseat, sitting in for Bex who is currently drowning in a sea of foster kittens (no, really! ) She's joined by podcast regulars Greg Ashton and Paul Jakubowski from Reason Digital. And we have a special guest, Alex Alexandrescu. Alex is Co-Founder of Dicey Tech, helping companies prototype and develop smart produc...

In this special episode of Tech For Good Live, the team embarked on a trip to a wonderfully sunny Leeds, to meet the team from The Digital Cooperative Development Consortium (DCDC) while they ran the Coop Hack, a two day ethical tech hackathon as part of Cooperative Fortnight 2019. DCDC is a cooperative body built with technology at its heart (a  platform coop ). They dream of a future where softw...

We have an action packed episode of greatness for you this week. Amazon have teamed up with the NHS. What could go wrong? Stanford are doing something around facial recognition. There is also something in the agenda about “Giving a Shit for Good”. That seems on brand. We have a smaller team this time out, small but mighty. Like poorly diluted Vimto. It’s too syrupy. Too strong. Everyone regrets it...

Welcome back to the Tech for Good Live podcast. Season Two ended in a big way - with live podcasts brought to you from Camp Digital. It was fun. Such guests. Much podcasting. But we are back now in the Manchester studio, that means it must be time for 2019 Season Three.  On today’s agenda… we talk about Charity whistleblowing, Facebook trying to create a global currency and there's a cathartic ran...

We're back at Camp Digital and here is the final episode of our three special podcasts recorded live in Manchester's Royal Exchange Theatre. Hosted by Rebecca Rae-Evans, Activist, strategist, commentator & account manager at Sigma. She's joined by podcast regular Ben White , Director at social enterprise Reason Digital. Joining them for a deep dive into some of the topics raised throughout Cam...